Warren steed jeffs biography

Jeffs resigned as President of the Corporation of the President of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Inc." The statement does not address his ecclesiastical position as prophet of the FLDS Church, and many in the FLDS communities still regard him as the prophet and their current leader."^[7]

[edit]Sex crime allegations and FBI's Most Wanted

In July 2004, Warren Jeffs' nephew, Brent Jeffs, filed a lawsuit against him alleging that in the late 1980s his uncle sodomized him in the Salt Lake Valley compound then owned by the FLDS Church.

In 2007, Jeffs was tried in Utah and convicted as an accessory to rape, but this conviction was later overturned.

Legal Difficulties

Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), faced significant legal troubles beginning in the mid-2000s. His father, the leader of the FLDS Church at his death, was survived by 19 or 20 wives and has about 60 children.^[9] No information is available about Warren Jeffs on their website.

Warren Jeffs' official title in the FLDS Church was "President and Prophet, Seer and Revelator".

May 3, 2005.

Early Life and Rise in the FLDS Church

Warren Jeffs was born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a sect that practices polygamy, which his family has upheld for generations. An unnamed source said that he retracted this statement.^[17] However the veracity of that source was called into question when Jeffs presented a handwritten note to the judge at the end of trial on March 27 saying that he was not a prophet of the FLDS Church.^[18]

On November 7, 2007, the Washington County Attorney's Office released video of jailhouse conversations between Nephi and Warren Jeffs.

^[15] The children and women who were suspected of being minors were returned after Texas courts established that the state had not presented sufficient evidence of abuse to have removed all of the women and children

On June 10, 2006, Arizona Attorney GeneralTerry Goddard told the Deseret Morning News that he had heard from several sources that Jeffs had returned to Arizona, and had performed marriage ceremonies in a mobile home that was being used as a wedding chapel.^[16]

On March 27, 2007, the Deseret Morning News reported that Jeffs had renounced his role as prophet of the FLDS Church in a conversation with his brother Nephi.

He surpassed his father's record of having multiple wives, eventually having 78 wives, with 24 of them being underage.

Controversial Actions

As the leader of the FLDS Church, Jeffs had the power to perform marriage ceremonies. This phenomenon is not dissimilar from the case with other religious denominations in the areas in which they predominate, but appears proportionally exaggerated in the case of the FLDS due to its relatively small scope.